What it is: Every year, a bunch of us get together as close to November 23rd as our schedules will allow and hold a Doctor Who marathon. We watch one story from each Doctor, all while indulging in too much pizza, Twinkies, Cherry Pepsi and Jelly Babies.
How we pick 'em: This year, for the very first time we opened up to the public and let everyone* vote on which stories we watched! (The only exception being Paul McGann, since he only had one story.)
*[Well, everyone who found out about it. We posted it on Outpost Skaro and made a few announcements. I only just signed up to TrekBBS or I would have mentioned it here, too.]
This year WhoFest will be on November 14, 2009.
The picks for 2009 are:
1st Doctor - The War Machines
2nd Doctor - The Mind Robber
3rd Doctor - The Daemons
4th Doctor - The Talons of Weng-Chiang
5th Doctor - The Caves of Androzani
6th Doctor - Attack of the Cybermen
7th Doctor - Remembrance of the Daleks
8th Doctor - An Edit Within*
9th Doctor - The Unquiet Dead
10th Doctor - Midnight
*An Edit Within is the 1996 TV Movie edited down to 30 minutes. This is by no means a diss on the 8th Doctor; it's simply done (a) to give us a little variety for Paul McGann since he only has 1 story (2 if you count Shada), and (b) a way to keep the marathon down to a mere 17 hours now that we have 10 (11!?!) Doctors to watch.
----WHOFEST 2009 T-SHIRT CONTEST!----
It's that time of year again! Break out your Photoshop and see what you can whip up!
THE RULES:
* The shirt front must say "WHOFEST 2009" and "CELEBRATING 46 YEARS OF DOCTOR WHO".
* The shirt back must say "NOVEMBER 14, 2009" "NEW SPRINGFIELD, OH" and the following show titles:
The War Machines
The Mind Robber
The Daemons
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Caves of Androzani
Attack of the Cybermen
Remembrance of the Daleks
An Edit Within
The Unquiet Dead
Midnight
* The images must be somehow connected to Doctor Who.
Beyond that, let your imagination go wild!
THE DEADLINE:
Designs must be e-mailed to whofest@2xlrobot.com by SATURDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2009, 11:59 PM!
The designs will be posted on our website at http://www.2xlrobot.com/whofest, as well as on our MySpace page, [and probably here too,] and pretty much anywhere we can get them on SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2009.
Voting will most likely take place on Outpost Skaro, and will last until SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER 11:59 PM.
CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF PHOTOSHOP!!!!
[My apologies if this is not an appropriate place for this announcement. We do this every year, and since I just joined this forum I thought I'd share!]
How we pick 'em: This year, for the very first time we opened up to the public and let everyone* vote on which stories we watched! (The only exception being Paul McGann, since he only had one story.)
*[Well, everyone who found out about it. We posted it on Outpost Skaro and made a few announcements. I only just signed up to TrekBBS or I would have mentioned it here, too.]
This year WhoFest will be on November 14, 2009.
The picks for 2009 are:
1st Doctor - The War Machines
2nd Doctor - The Mind Robber
3rd Doctor - The Daemons
4th Doctor - The Talons of Weng-Chiang
5th Doctor - The Caves of Androzani
6th Doctor - Attack of the Cybermen
7th Doctor - Remembrance of the Daleks
8th Doctor - An Edit Within*
9th Doctor - The Unquiet Dead
10th Doctor - Midnight
*An Edit Within is the 1996 TV Movie edited down to 30 minutes. This is by no means a diss on the 8th Doctor; it's simply done (a) to give us a little variety for Paul McGann since he only has 1 story (2 if you count Shada), and (b) a way to keep the marathon down to a mere 17 hours now that we have 10 (11!?!) Doctors to watch.
----WHOFEST 2009 T-SHIRT CONTEST!----
It's that time of year again! Break out your Photoshop and see what you can whip up!
THE RULES:
* The shirt front must say "WHOFEST 2009" and "CELEBRATING 46 YEARS OF DOCTOR WHO".
* The shirt back must say "NOVEMBER 14, 2009" "NEW SPRINGFIELD, OH" and the following show titles:
The War Machines
The Mind Robber
The Daemons
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Caves of Androzani
Attack of the Cybermen
Remembrance of the Daleks
An Edit Within
The Unquiet Dead
Midnight
* The images must be somehow connected to Doctor Who.
Beyond that, let your imagination go wild!
THE DEADLINE:
Designs must be e-mailed to whofest@2xlrobot.com by SATURDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2009, 11:59 PM!
The designs will be posted on our website at http://www.2xlrobot.com/whofest, as well as on our MySpace page, [and probably here too,] and pretty much anywhere we can get them on SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2009.
Voting will most likely take place on Outpost Skaro, and will last until SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER 11:59 PM.
CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF PHOTOSHOP!!!!
[My apologies if this is not an appropriate place for this announcement. We do this every year, and since I just joined this forum I thought I'd share!]
